Mumbai, India
(Jan. 23, 2012)
– SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, achieved record global revenue of US$2.725 billion in 2011. SAS marked double-digit growth in its 36th profitable year as organizations sought to uncover business opportunity in their own burgeoning data stores through the use of advanced analytics.

"Companies trust SAS® Business Analytics to solve their toughest problems, from increasing revenue through better pricing strategies to stopping fraud-related losses," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. "Every major industry has SAS success stories worth noting. We thrive on the challenges customers bring us. It's why we exist. We take our role in their success seriously."

Goodnight said 2011 results also affirm the positive effects of steadfast investments in SAS' workforce and award-winning corporate culture despite an economic climate that remains difficult. SAS, a perennial presence on FORTUNE's Best Companies to Work For list in the U.S., announced its latest No. 3 ranking. Innovation, Goodnight said, starts with prioritizing employees.

"Innovation is what has kept SAS growing for the past 36 years," Goodnight said. "We can't succeed without innovation, new products, ideas and services. Loyal, creative, healthy employees are innovative."

In 2011, SAS grew staff 9.2 percent and reinvested 24 percent of revenue into research and development. The Americas accounted for 46 percent of total revenue; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 42 percent; and Asia Pacific 12 percent. SAS growth was strong across the board in all major regions and countries, even in regions hardest hit economically.

SAS RECORDS ACROSS-THE-BOARD INCREASES

Revenue surged across all solution and industry categories. Software to detect fraud saw a triple-digit jump. Revenue from on-demand solutions grew almost 50 percent. Growth from analytics and information management solutions were double digit, as were gains from customer intelligence, retail, risk and supply chain solutions.

SAS experienced growth in every industry, demonstrating that more businesses recognize the benefits of analytics. Highlights include continued strong growth in financial services and double-digit increases in government, health care and life sciences.

SAS' INDIA OPERATIONS WITNESSED STRONG PERFORMANCE AND GROWTH IN 2011

"We are delighted with our performance. This is a result of organizations' realizing the need to embrace Analytics as a competitive strategy. We attribute our growth and success to our customers, our partners and our employees who have helped us maintain our leadership position in Analytics market in India" said Mr. Sudipta Sen – SAS India MD & CEO and Regional Director – South East Asia.

SAS® ANALYTICS DELIVER RESULTS

The circle of trust among SAS, its employees and customers has yielded countless successes. Among them:

Twiddy & Company cut invoicing errors by 15 percent and makes better decisions about which vendors to hire for maintenance at the 900 vacation properties it manages along North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The University of Central Florida gets real-time budget data and other reports that drive important decisions about students, programs, resources and facilities at the US' second-largest public university.

According to one estimate, global information is doubling every two years, and the data created last year exceeded 1.8 trillion gigabytes. Another predicts that by 2020, data will grow by 50 times. "The search for business value in big data is today's gold rush," said SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jim Davis. "Big data is interesting to the extent that you can make sense of it all, and the tool for that is analytics. Big data analytics, rather than just big data, provides real value and insight."

Expand its SAS High-Performance Analytics family to provide greater value through analytical, industry-specific and horizontal business solutions, helping reduce processing times for complex operations from days to hours and hours to minutes.

Build on its momentum in SAS Customer Intelligence solutions with new versions of SAS Social Media Analytics and SAS Marketing Automation.

Help financial services and other firms better manage credit and operational risk.

Continue to invest in SAS Analytics, addressing a wide range of text and predictive analysis, forecasting and operations research needs. With enhanced analytics, SAS will improve how organizations use massive volumes of structured and unstructured data for better and faster business decisions.

"What would you do with the extra time if your code ran in two minutes instead of five hours?" Goodnight challenged. "I want to reset how people think about business problems. Things are possible now that we could never think of before."